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From CNN:
President Barack Obama's performance on national security and international affairs and his image as a strong leader appear to be behind his rising approval rating, according to new national poll conducted as the president was on an overseas visit to four countries.
A CNN/Opinion Research Corporation survey released Monday indicates that Obama's approval rating among Americans stands at 54 percent, with 45 percent saying they disapprove of the job he's doing as president. Obama's approval rating appears to have steadily risen in the past two months, from 48 percent in early April to 52 percent in early May and the current mark of 54 percent.
"On specific issues, the president's approval rating is over 50 percent on only three out of 11 items tested, and all three - terrorism, Afghanistan, and Iraq - are foreign or security issues," says CNN Polling Director Keating Holland. "But his approval rating on every domestic issue listed in the poll is well below 50 and on most of them - including the economy, health care, taxes, and the budget deficit - his rating has remained flat or dropped since the start of the year."
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By: Stud on 5/31/2011 10:00AM
Perhaps the next CNN poll will have Obama's approval ratings closer to 200%.
If that happened it would match the increase in black unemployment. Obama doubling his approval rating would also match the increase in the price of gasoline, which in some areas is literally twice what it was during Bush's first term in office.
A modest 40% increase for President Obama's approval rating would match the increase nationwide of people relying on homeless shelters and food pantry donations to survive.
CNN joins the liberal mainstream media sycophants who parade clownish black "pundits" and so-called news personalities chasing their own fame as opposed to reporting the truth across our screens in a delusional attempt to convince the American people that its raining by pouring water on our legs.
Here's a poll question that is not being asked. Are you better off today than you were before Obama became President of the United States? How many people would honestly say yes? None.
The Obama presidency has been a disaster, particularly for the people Obama apparently (Cornel West's words, and mine) resents most--African Americans. Why the media continues to cook up poll numbers based on "do you love America" "are you glad Bin Laden is dead" questions to drum up Obama's dismal approval ratings is beyond stupidity.
America needs change, and it starts with the White House and a new President, and hopefully a new generation of legitimate, credible journalists.
Donald Edmond, Esq.
Washington, DC
http://twitter.com/edmondesq
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By: Alma on 5/31/2011 3:05PM
Mr. Edmond,
Stop fighting the love, and give it a rest. Go listen to Rush, you'll feel better!
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By: OOOZZZZZ on 6/01/2011 9:53AM
Quote by stud: "America needs change, and it starts with the White House and a new President".
A new President. Who exactly would that be?
Sarah Palin? Newt Gingrich? Mitt Romney? Ron Paul? Tim Pawlenty? Hermain Cain? Texas Governor Rick Perry? Ex Florida Governor Jeb Bush?
Or maybe somebody else?
Most of these potential Republican candidates are former presidential candidate retreads with preious attempts who have all tried and failed in the past who offer nothing to the American people in regards to better solutions for this severe recession and puzzling foreign policy that took decades to create and was systemtaically turbo charged by the monumental and historical screw up known as President George W. Bush....One of the worst things that has ever happened in the 234 year history of this country.
And for the Republican candidates who want to become President? Their problem besides all their apparent political flaws, is their continued collective message, past actions over the Bush years and their continued support that helped caused this recession that we now sit in and their undying supprt of their dead hero: the antiquated Ronald Reagan "Trickle Down Economics" doctrine that caused economic bubble after economic bubble that only sustains for a short period of time until it burst and only favors the rich who made billions cycle after cycle and purposely lost millions of jobs in America with corporate tax breaks granted them by Republican Presidents who were somehow "trusted" to do the right thing....A corporate political trust and instead of reinvesting back into America and it's people to create jobs, they instead took all that free money, left this country and went overseas all over the world to invest & create jobs for the multi-billions in annual tax free profits with lesser pay, limited or no benefits for it's workers while being supported by the host country who in turn gets billions in annual corporate tax revenues and import profits.
Look throughout your home and that includes the clothes on your back, probsably the car you drive and the shoes on your feet. Is anything you own made in America? It may have an American name attached but the materials and/or components are all foreign.
That's the problem with all the Republican candidates. Ronald Reagan is all they know and that's their achilles heel.
They live mentally in the past, are all students of the decades old Ronald Reagan trickle down philosophy and it does not work for anyone except the rich who they only care to support and while in the same breath, continue to sell that bill of goods (wrapped up in the Constitution) to the poor conservative Republican base who continue to get screwed time and time again by these snake oil salesman and it does not matter if that poor Republican wears a suit, drives a BMW or wears Wangler Jeans, a truckers cap and drives a pick-up truck.
All these candidates only know one thing, sing the same old song because they have nothing else to offer.
And nobody's buying it.
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By: jeanise on 6/24/2011 9:26AM
You sound as if our president created all this mess, and how could he fix it in 2 years, he is working hard and the republicans block every plan that would give us more jobs and benefit the economy and befroe you say looking for a handout i work two jobs and not complaining i do what I ahve to do. our president has done more than Bush and his mob in a horter period of time, can you imagine how worse it would be if he were not president what about John Mccain, You people geton my nerves making like because he is president everything will be fine in 2 lousy years when it took decades to make this mess. Obama 2012.
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By: DJ on 5/31/2011 11:05AM
I felt the same way Mr Edmond felt under many U S Presidents and had to come to the realization that they are only men. With prayer and faith in God will America find it's way. God is still in control and as Jesus rose from the death he said " All power is in my hand ". Better quit looking to man and start praying to God.
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By: Anubis on 8/03/2011 9:09PM
HUH?
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By: tuptsy on 5/31/2011 3:27PM
Well Edmond, Esq. Obama came into office after a disasterous 8 years of Bush. How can he as President turn things around in this country so quickly. How can he as President change the dynamics of black unemployment in 2 years that have been around and I might add persistent for hundreds of years. I must admit, I once admired Cornel West, however, now I despise him. He fell into that trap of defining a black man (like you not black if you speak "correct English"). Cornel's comments rinked of jealousy; and to make a point, the fact that Obama had the courage to marry an AfroAmerican woman while most of those so called black men (West, Gates, and more) marry anything but, demonstrates, to me anyway, that Obama clearly has a sense of who he is rather than Cornel who married a passive Ethiopian woman. Further, this country needs to compare gas prices world wide and realize that Americans are spoiled brats! Gas prices in Europe were higher when I was there in the early 2000 than they are here now. Furthermore, there is more competition for gas from India and China. Another reason why the economy is yet flat is the housing market. Obama did NOT make that "train wreck".
Personally, your comments are extremely emotional. Unreasoned and without merit.
I agree with Alma, go listen to fat pig Rush.
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By: Stud on 5/31/2011 6:58PM
I cannot apologize enough. I did not see things as you do. Tomorrow on my way to work, when I see yet another homeless person wearing an Obama t-shirt sleeping on the sidewalk just blocks from the White House, I will pause and declare what my eyes see to be unreasonable.
Later this week when yet another black family faces foreclosure and turns to me for help, I will just tell them to be "reasonable" and they will be allowed to keep their homes.
Of course, simple unequivocal remarks about things THAT ARE OBVIOUS TO ANYONE WITH A BRAIN that are going on while Obama golfs are unreasonable and perfectly okay once Obama loonies make a few excuses.
Excuses aren't change. Excuses won't help the millions of black families ignored by this arrogant, dishonest political huckster who pimped our race for votes then skipped out on Black America like a deadbeat dad.
So you prefer to bury your head in the sand. Go for it. After he's voted out in 2012, maybe Obama will join you.
Sincerely,
People who care about Black America.
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By: Robin Hemingway on 6/04/2011 4:46AM
Praise the Lord & pass the ammunition. Thank you Barack. After 8 years of the worst President in history, it feels good to be standing side-by-side with someone who knows how to shoot and who to shoot. Americans in Berlin-Brandenburg for Obama will be out there registering voters for 2012, like we did for 2008, when they told us we were crazy.
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By: sarah on 5/31/2011 4:48PM
per another article
"Please wake up, reality is on line one. The President has done the bare minimum for the bottom 99% of people, while working overtime for the top 1%. He and most of the legislative branch are bought & paid for by the same corporate sponsors. Members of the Progressive Caucus are the only elected officials in Washington who work for Main St. (see: The People’s Budget) while the vast majority are the waterboys for Wall St. and transnational corporations (see: endless wars, health care “reform,” financial “reform,” free trade agreements, the budget, etc.). Any and everything that benefits the bottom 99% is being dismantled and replaced with neoliberal reforms to further enrich the elites.
How are we, the “little” people, ever going to get our needs met if we stay silent? The President requires pressure from the citizenry no matter who (s)he is or what party they’re in (of course, there’s not too much difference these days). It is our job in a democracy to be active, engaged and defiant. It is not our job to get “excited about any political candidate.” That’s a fool’s errand and an embarrassment – we shame our ancestors when we elevate style over substance.
“Dr. West’s outspoken demeanor couldn’t come at a worse time for President Obama and his party.” Well, good! Cause the man I voted for couldn’t come at a worse time for we the people. The wingnuts are on the warpath & the President seems content to let them roll over the least of these. I know, the Obamabots with their kool-aid on IV drip have no shortage of excuses, cause that’s so much more convenient that facing up to the facts.
Of course we have to vote for him in the next election, but that doesn’t mean we have a gag order. Smiley & West are hardly the most vocal critics of the President, as anyone who bothers to not watch the propaganda machines of corporate-owned media knows.
If we want anything to change, such as, “Black people are unemployed, incarcerated and miseducated more than any other group in America” there must be:
1) public financing for campaigns
2) a Constitutional Amendment to define what a person is – not a corporation! The Citizen’s United decision is a stain on this nation.
3) total transparency for donations to any political organization (Virginia Thomas, the Chamber of Commerce, etc. need to make public where the money comes from)."
Btw ita mr. edmund Esq.
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